In news that would have been unthinkable back when Vice was a magazine in Brooklyn that was primarily associated with music and “dos and don’ts” lists, parent company Vice Media is reportedly in talks to sell a stake to Time Warner- valuing Vice at a shocking figure of over $2 billion.

According to a Sky News report, Time Warner- which recently spun off its legacy print media arm, Time, Inc.- is in “detailed negotiations” to acquire about half of Vice:

One potential structure under discussion would see Time Warner injecting HLN, a news platform owned by its Cable operations, into Vice in return for roughly half the enlarged company.

A deal is expected to value Vice at roughly $2.2bn, about 50% more than last year’s sale of a stake in the mini-conglomerate.

I’m not going to pretend that Vice’s stuff is my cup of tea, exactly, but they do good work, and a lot of stuff that no one else is doing. And there’s no way a Vice-infused version of HLN wouldn’t mark a dramatic improvement over HLN’s present (embarrassing garbage like Nancy Grace and Dr. Drew) or its even more nightmarish proposed future (essentially Twitter on TV, with series called #WhatsyourFOMO and I Can Haz NewsToons.)